Picker-stick



v Wikuaoo H. W. MORGAN AND J. 0. WHITENER.

PICKER STICK- APPLICATION FILED JUNE 8.1921.

1,391,266. PatentedSept.20,1921.

S! vwe 11 014 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY W. MORGAN AND JAMES 0. WHITENER, 0F GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA.

ZPICKER-STIGK.

Application filed June 8,

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY W. MORGAN and JAMEs O. WHITENER, citizens of the United States of America, and residents, respectively, of Greenville, county of Greenville, and State of South Carolina, have 1nvented certain new and useful Improvements in Picker-Sticks, of which the following is a full and clear specification.

The object of this invention is to provide the picker stick, at points where it engages the check-strap, with devices which will reduce the wear not only on the check-strap but on the stick and thus preserve the life of both, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in vertical section showing one embodiment of our invention;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section; and

Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of the roller-carrying shoe. 1

The invention consists essentially in mounting a freely-rotating roller 5 on each working edge of the picker staff, 6, these rollers being desirably of a length equal to the width of the check-strap? and being of sufiicient diameter to prevent the striking edges of the stick from striking against the loops in the leather check-strap. Each roller is mounted on a vertical pin 8 rigidly mounted in ears 9, said ears being cast in tegral with a box-like shoe fitted on the stick, said shoe consisting of side-plates 10 and 11 forming a passage which is rectangular in horizontal section, to thereby insure the box fitting the stick snugly. The box is tapered interiorly upwardly to correspond with the usual taper of the stick, to thereby insure the box seating and anchoring itself on the, stick by a wedging action. To additionally anchor the box on the stick, w may employ any devices; we show one or more screws 12 entering the pickerstick through a hole in one of the short side-walls 11.

It will be observed that inoperation the entire thrust of the picker stick against the end loops of the check-strap falls on the rollers and that as the rollers impinge against the curved ends of the check-strap Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 20, 1921.

1921. Serial No. 475,978.

they freely rotate on their pins, thereby greatly reducing the wear and friction between t-he picker stick and the strap, resulting not only in an easier movement of the picker stick and check loop but also greatly embodiment having been specifically described, what is clalmed as new is:

1. In combination with a picker stick and a flexible check-strap, a pair of freelyrotatable rollers mounted upon the stick, one along each striking-edge thereof.

2. In combination with a picker stick and a flexible check-strap, a pair of freely-rotatable rollers mounted upon the stick, one along each striking-edge thereof, said rollers being mounted in a box-like structure surrounding the stick and anchored thereto.

3. In combination with a picker stick and a flexible check-strap, a pair of freely-rotatable rollers approximately equal in length to the width of the strop and mounted upon the stick, one along each striking edge thereofin the plane of the strap.

4. The combination of a picker stick tapered upwardly, a flexible check-strap, a pair of freely rotatable rollers mounted upon the stick, one along each striking edge thereof, a box-like structure supporting these rollers and surrounding the stick, this box being interiorly tapered to wedge down and be anchored upon the stick.

5. The combination of a picker stick and a flexible check-strap, and a freely rotatable roller appliance mounted in the stick in the plane of the strap and having a length approximately equal to the width of the strap.

In testimony whereof we hereunto afiix our signatures this 31st day of May, 1921.

HENRY W. MORGAN. JAMES O. WHITENER. 

